Marmarica

The Marmarica (Greek Μαρμαρική Marmarike ) is an ancient landscape on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Kyrenaia.

The residents were called Marmaridai (Latin Marmaridae ). After pseudo - Skylax to their settlement area of Apis in Egypt extended westward. According to Ptolemy, however, the extends Marmarica (which he called Nomos ) of Darnis (today's Darna in Libya) in the west to Petra Megale (today Bardia, which lies almost at today's Egyptian- Libyan border ) to the east. In the Antonine Itinerary, the western boundary runs west of Limniade and Darnis.

The Marmaridai were subjected to Roman influence, according to Florus around the time of Publius Sulpicius Quirinius in the course of the campaign against the Garamantes.

It first belonged to the province of Creta et Cyrene. The little reliable Historia Augusta reports of successful battles against the Marmaridai of Probus, which Tenagino Probus, then Praefectus aegypti, and not the later Roman emperor Probus should be meant.

Under Diocletian, in late antiquity, the area was referred to as inferior or Libya Libya Sicca, in contrast to the Libya -called superior Kyrenaia. She was now combined with the Libyan Nomos ( the Egyptian Pronvinzeinteilung ). Capital of this province was initially Paraitonion ( Marsa Matruh ), then later Darna. At the turn of the 4th to 5th century invaded Libyan tribes entered the area. The efforts of Justinian to a recovery of old and construction of new fortification led to a temporary backup of the Marmarica.

643 Marmarica was conquered during the Islamic expansion by Arabs.